瑟

sè
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a type of standing harp, smaller than konghou 箜篌, with 5-25 strings

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

瑟 has 必 bì as a sound part whose link is not clear in Mandarin, and 玨, an empty part that once showed a stringed instrument. Its first meaning was a stringed instrument.

Drawn as: stringed instrument

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Homophones

色sè
colour, look, expression, scene
塞sè
to stop up, to stuff, to cope with

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